REC6: How Stitch Fix Uses Data to Optimize High Volume Recruiting

How Stitch Fix Uses Data to Optimize High Volume Recruiting

Stitch Fix, founded in 2011, has pioneered a new retail concept of blending brick & mortar retail with data and technology that enables busy women to discover and explore their personal style. Over the last 18 months, Stitch Fix more than quadrupled in size and now has more than 5,000 employees. An average month brings more than 7,000 applicants, 1,500 interviews and 300 new hires. To support this growth, it was essential for Stitch Fix to leverage recruiting technology capable of handling high-volume recruiting, but also flexible enough to allow teams to create personalized, scalable and culture-focused hiring processes. Lindsay Varney of Stitch Fix will share how Stitch Fix seamlessly manages high-volume recruiting, supported by modern HR technology. Attendees will learn how Stitch Fix identifies and leverages data and metrics to set hiring goals, track progress, improve candidate experience and collaboratively align with the business strategy to predict future hiring outcomes. You will gain insight into the lessons learned and best practices for implementing HR technology to your organization scale talent for growth.

Presenters

Lindsay Varney

Director of Talent
Stitch Fix

Bio

Lindsay Varney

Lindsay Varney is a strategic and accomplished professional with over 15 years of experience in talent acquisition focused on talent solutions, technology and operations as well as strategic leadership and business partnership. In the talent space, she’s a strategic player with rich and diverse experience across tech and professional service industries. At an early point in her career, Lindsay found her passion for talent operations with the opportunity to be part of a small team to design and launch the first-ever talent organization for Flextronics (an international manufacturing company). Most recently Lindsay was at Yahoo! as a Director leading the global talent operations and analytics function. Today, as the Director of Talent for Stitch Fix, she leads a 15-person team focused on aiding the business in our efforts to attract, engage and retain exceptional people. Lindsay is deeply passionate about leading a successful and innovative organization, seamlessly allowing the business to achieve its talent and business goals.

Daniel Chait

CEO
Greenhouse

Bio

Daniel Chait

Daniel Chait, a visionary in the recruiting space, is CEO and co-founder of Greenhouse, a modern, smart recruiting platform that facilitates how employers identify, evaluate and hire top talent. Recognizing the need to streamline recruiting processes, Chait built Greenhouse with a singular goal: to make companies great at hiring. From setting the company’s strategic direction and developing its innovative software platform, to building a team with the focus, vision and experience to excel, Chait has led Greenhouse’s emergence as the platform of choice for organizations that want to transform how they hire the best people. A successful entrepreneur, Chait previously co-founded Lab49, a global firm providing strategy, design and technology consulting, building advanced solutions for the world’s leading investment banks, hedge funds and exchanges. He is also an advisor for numerous startups and is a member of New York Angels. Chait teaches the course, “How to Make Hiring a Strength of your Company,” offered through General Assembly and the New York Angels education series.